Quick point
The crowds of Democrats who have been whining for four years about the supposedly obsolete, useless, nonessential Electoral College are oddly silent this morning. How quickly they have lost their enthusiasm for election reform!
Larger point: All the rhetoric about a "stolen" election in 2000 is exposed as just so much hot air. Because if there is any legitimate way to close the gap in Ohio, Kerry will be perfectly willing to govern having won only twenty states and with a more than three million vote deficit in the popular tally. Without any hint of irony!
Waiting for Michael Moore to spout a conspiracy regarding Fox calling Ohio for Bush early...
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Al Sharpton on The Daily Show live coverage last night, whining about how "we were mugged in 2000", said this: "If George W. Bush wins this election, it will be the first time he was elected president."
My immediate response: "If that happens, are you people finally going to shut up about it?"
I don't think I would make a very good political talk show host.
Regarding "election reform", did you ever notice how the Democrats who so hate that obsolete Electoral College, and support things like the ballot measure in Colorado to award electoral votes in proportion to the popular vote, never seem to talk about dividing up California's 55 electoral votes that way?
Personally, the next time someone suggests to me that we should go to a straight popular vote, I think I'll ask them, "What have you got against America's small family farmers?" Because a straight popular vote benefits urban city-dwellers at the direct expense of rural folks.
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